David Perdue

David Perdue (10 December 1949-) was a US Senator from Georgia (R) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Saxby Chambliss.

Biography
David Perdue was born in Macon, Georgia on 10 December 1949, the first cousin of Sonny Perdue. He graduated from Georgia Tech with engineering degrees and worked for Kurt Salmon Associates, an international consulting firm, working for twelve years as a management consultant. In 1998, he became a senior vice president for Reebok, reducing the company's debt and reviving its sneaker line after becoming its CEO. In 2002, he went on to work for Pillowtex, but he left the job after nine months due to its underfunded pension liability and its high debts. Perdue continued to revive brands and reap rewards for investors for years, and he decided to run for political office as a Republican Party candidate. In 2015, he won the election to replace retired Senator Saxby Chambliss in the US Senate, becoming the junior senator. He supported energy independence, opposed gun control, supported Israel, opposed Obamacare, opposed Common Core education standards, opposed gay marriage, opposed abortion, and supported the abolition of net neutrality, and he became one of Donald Trump's closest supporters. In 2017, he was one of 22 senators to sign a letter to Donald Trump that demanded that he withdraw from the Paris Agreement.